2009年12月26日 星期六

Liu's trial stayed out of the state-run news media

While they were not timid in their prosecution of Mr. Liu, the authorities made sure that coverage of his trial stayed out of the state-run news media.



stay
v., stayed, stay·ing, stays. v.intr.
  1. To continue to be in a place or condition: stay home; stay calm.
  2. To remain or sojourn as a guest or lodger: stayed at a motel.
  3. To stop moving; halt.
  4. To wait; pause.
  5. To endure or persist: stayed with the original plan.
  6. To keep up in a race or contest: tried to stay with the lead runner.
  7. Games. To meet a bet in poker without raising it.
  8. To stand one's ground; remain firm.
  9. Archaic. To cease from a specified activity.
v.tr.
  1. To stop or halt; check.
  2. To postpone; delay.
  3. To delay or stop the effect of (an order, for example) by legal action or mandate: stay a prisoner's execution.
  4. To satisfy or appease temporarily: stayed his anger.
  5. To remain during: stayed the week with my parents; stayed the duration of the game.
  6. To wait for; await: "I will not stay thy questions. Let me go;/Or if thou follow me, do not believe/But I shall do thee mischief in the wood" (Shakespeare).
n.
  1. The act of halting; check.
  2. The act of coming to a halt.
  3. A brief period of residence or visiting.
  4. A suspension or postponement of a legal action or an execution: granted a stay to the prisoner's execution.
idioms:

stay put

  1. To remain in a fixed or established position.
stay the course
  1. To hold out or persevere to the end of a race or challenge.

[Middle English steien, from Old French ester, esteir, from Latin stāre.]

SYNONYMS stay, remain, wait, abide, tarry, linger, sojourn. These verbs mean to continue to be in a given place. Stay is the least specific, though it can also suggest that the person involved is a guest or visitor: "Must you go? Can't you stay?" (Charles J. Vaughan). Remain often implies continuing or being left after others have gone: I remained at the end of the meeting to talk to the speaker. Wait suggests remaining in readiness, anticipation, or expectation: "Your father is waiting for me to take a walk with him" (Booth Tarkington). Abide implies continuing for a lengthy period: "Abide with me" (Henry Francis Lyte). Tarry and linger both imply a delayed departure, but linger more strongly suggests reluctance to leave: "She was not anxious but puzzled that her husband tarried" (Eden Phillpotts). "I alone sit lingering here" (Henry Vaughan). To sojourn is to reside temporarily in a place: "He was sojourning at [a] hotel in Bond Street" (Anthony Trollope). See also synonyms at defer1.

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